Scapegoat (disambiguation)
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A scapegoat is a person unfairly blamed for some misfortune.
Scapegoat or The Scapegoat may also refer to:
- Scapegoating, the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat
- An actual goat used in a Jewish Azazel ritual
Places
- Scapegoat Wilderness, a Wilderness Area in Montana
- Scapegoat Mountain, a mountain in the Scapegoat Wilderness
- Scapegoat Hill, a small village in Yorkshire, England
Literature
- The Scapegoat, translated work by Arvid Paulson from August Strindberg's Syndabocken
- "The Scapegoat", a study of collective violence by René Girard
- The Scapegoat (novel), a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier
- Scapegoat, an investigation into the trial of Richard Hauptmann
- Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation, a 2000 book by Andrea Dworkin
- "The Scapegoat" (Cherryh novel), a 1985 novella by science fiction writer C. J. Cherryh
- The Scapegoat, a novel by Hall Caine
Film, television and radio drama
- The Scapegoat (1912 film), American film
- The Scapegoat (1959 film), adaptation of the du Maurier novel, starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis
- The Scapegoat (2011 film), Turkish film
- The Scapegoat (2012 film), British film, remake of the du Maurier novel
- The Scapegoat (2013 film), French film
- The Scapegoat (audio drama), Doctor Who audio drama
- The Scapegoat, 1914 short film starring Tom Mix
Music
- Scapegoat Wax, a hip hop/rap/breakbeat band
- Scapegoat (band), a rock group based in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Scapegoat, a 2008 album by Josh Abbott Band
Songs
- Scapegoat (D'banj song), 2010
- "Scapegoat", a song by Sevendust from the album Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
- "Scapegoat", a song by Atmosphere from the EP Overcast!
- "Scapegoat", a song by Guano Apes from the album Proud Like a God
- "Scapegoat", a song by Chumbawamba from the album Tubthumper
- "Scapegoat", a song by Fear Factory from the album Soul of a New Machine
- "Scapegoat", a song by Fad Gadget from the album Under the Flag
- "Scapegoat", a song by Love and Money
- "Scapegoat", a song by Downthesun
- "Scapegoats", a song by Christy Moore about the Birmingham Six
Other uses
- The Scapegoat (painting), by William Holman Hunt
- SS-14 Scapegoat, a Soviet ballistic missile
- Scapegoat tree, a binary search tree used in computer science